It has been a year since we initiated coverage on the Financial Technology space. The scan was launched with 248 companies across 10 categories. Today, we are tracking 1,072 companies across 17 categories…and growing. Apart from the large database of companies, the scan has been cataloging FinTech news events around the world, every day. Interestingly, we note that the velocity of FinTech news has been increasing in recent months. To see the full list of companies, contact us using the form on www.venturescanner.com.

Here is a summary of major news events that happened in the past couple of months:

The P2P payments space facilitated via messaging apps heats up as social behemoth, Facebook, enters the fray: Facebook recently introduced free P2P payments on its Facebook Messenger app. This follows what its Asian competitors (e.g. Line), have been doing for some time. In fact, Line Pay recently acquired WebPay, a Japanese online payments platform; Line Pay also just entered a partnership with CyberSource, a Visa-owned e-commerce payment company, to further expand Line Pay.

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